Carl Hulse talks about Confirmation Bias, and DeShawn Charles Winslow discusses In West Mills. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Aug 02, 2019•58 min•Ep 254•Transcript available on Metacast Ted Chiang talks about Exhalation, and Helen Phillips discusses The Need. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jul 26, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep 253•Transcript available on Metacast The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new novel, and Jon Gertner talks about The Ice at the End of the World. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jul 19, 2019•53 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast Will discusses The Conservative Sensibility, and David Maraniss talks about A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jul 12, 2019•57 min•Ep 251•Transcript available on Metacast The Timess book critics talk about choosing the best 50 memoirs of the past 50 years, and Daniel Okrent discusses The Guarded Gate. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jul 05, 2019•51 min•Ep 250•Transcript available on Metacast Brodesser-Akner discusses Fleishman in Trouble, and Katherine Eban talks about Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep 249•Transcript available on Metacast Lepore discusses several new books about the Apollo 11 mission, and Julie Satow talks about the history of the Plaza Hotel. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jun 21, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep 248•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Macfarlane talks about "Underland," and Julia Phillips discusses "Disappearing Earth." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jun 14, 2019•58 min•Ep 247•Transcript available on Metacast Rachel Louise Snyder talks about No Visible Bruises, and Josh Levin discusses The Queen. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jun 07, 2019•59 min•Ep 246•Transcript available on Metacast Vanessa Friedman talks about this seasons notable thrillers, and Liesl Schillinger discusses new books about travel. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 31, 2019•54 min•Ep 245•Transcript available on Metacast Rick Atkinson talks about The British Are Coming, and Brenda Wineapple discusses The Impeachers. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 24, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 244•Transcript available on Metacast Casey Cep discusses "Furious Hours," and Eliza Griswold talks about "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 17, 2019•55 min•Ep 243•Transcript available on Metacast George Packer talks about Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, and Lori Gottlieb discusses Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 10, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep 242•Transcript available on Metacast Lalami discusses her latest novel, and Jenny Odell talks about "How to Do Nothing." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 03, 2019•57 min•Ep 241•Transcript available on Metacast Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about Stony the Road and Dark Sky Rising, and David Wallace-Wells discusses The Uninhabitable Earth. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Apr 26, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his new book, "Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 239•Transcript available on Metacast Reichl discusses "Save Me the Plums," and Emily Bazelon talks about "Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Apr 12, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep 238•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson's "Coders." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Apr 05, 2019•55 min•Ep 237•Transcript available on Metacast Bharara discusses Doing Justice, and Senator Doug Jones talks about Bending Toward Justice. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Mar 29, 2019•55 min•Ep 236•Transcript available on Metacast Evan Thomas talks about First, his new biography of OConnor, and Mitchell S. Jackson discusses Survival Math. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Mar 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep 235•Transcript available on Metacast The fashion designer discusses I.M., and David McCraw talks about Truth in Our Times. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Mar 15, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep 234•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Kotlowitz discusses An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, The Wall. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Mar 08, 2019•59 min•Ep 233•Transcript available on Metacast Patrick Radden Keefe talks about Say Nothing, and Frans de Waal discusses Mamas Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep 232•Transcript available on Metacast Gal Beckerman discusses How to Disappear, by Akiko Busch, and Silence, by Jane Brox; and Steve Luxenberg talks about Separate. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Feb 22, 2019•51 min•Ep 231•Transcript available on Metacast Benjamin Dreyer discusses his best-selling book about writing, and Thomas Mallon discusses Landfall, his new novel about the presidential administration of George W. Bush. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Feb 15, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep 230•Transcript available on Metacast James discusses "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," and Stephanie Land talks about "Maid." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Feb 08, 2019•50 min•Ep 229•Transcript available on Metacast Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," and Charles Finch discusses the season's best thrillers. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Feb 01, 2019•58 min•Ep 228•Transcript available on Metacast Shapiro talks about her new best-selling memoir, and David Treuer discusses The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jan 25, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep 227•Transcript available on Metacast A. O. Scott talks about Linn Ullmanns Unquiet, and Judith Newman discusses new books about anxiety, mental illness and grief. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jan 18, 2019•51 min•Ep 226•Transcript available on Metacast Julian Lucas talks about the role of curses in contemporary African literature, and Abby Ellin discusses "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married." Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Jan 11, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast